On September 12, 2008, Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dedicated the Elizabeth and David Koop Memorial Organ—a four-manual digital AEolian-Skinner organ built by the Walker Technical Company of Zionsville, Pennsylvania.

The musicians and people of Tenth Church are deeply grateful to Dr. C. Everett Koop for his generous and gracious gift that will better equip the Church to offer beautiful music for the glory of God. When Dr. Koop was asked the question, “Why did you give the organ to Tenth,” he answered as follows: 

When the opportunity made itself available to contribute to the future ministries of Tenth Church, I must say it intersected a thought I already had—to remember the debt I owe Tenth Church for what it has contributed to me and my family over the years, and at the same time, to commemorate the life of my recently deceased wife and the life of our own third son, David, who went to his heavenly home in 1968. I was confronted by the claims of Jesus Christ at Tenth. Betty was confronted by the same claims in my repeating to her the gleanings from my attendance at Tenth Church while she was home taking care of three young children. In the late 1940’s, our children came to know the Lord at Tenth through the faithful teaching and preaching of the Word and the comprehensive memory verse program at Tenth Sunday School. As it will say on an unobtrusive plaque on the console of the organ, “Given to the glory of God and in loving memory of his wife Betty and their son David, with gratitude for all that God has done for his family through Tenth Presbyterian Church, by Dr. C. Everett Koop, A.D. 2008.”

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